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Spanish airline Iberia SA, poised to merge with British Airways PLC, reported Friday a loss of euro16.4 million ($24.5 million) in the third quarter, compared to a profit of euro30.4 million a year earlier, as the economic crisis sapped demand for air travel.
World powers including the U.S., Russia and China are teaming up at sea to tackle the pirates plaguing Somalia's lawless coast, as a sharp increase in attacks has forced nations who may be rivals on land to make unlikely alliances.
The European Union has launched an investigation into a prized Spanish wetland that has turned bone dry through mismanagement of water resources and is now on fire underground, white smoke now rising from areas where fish once swam.
A huge crowd rallied in Madrid Saturday against a bill to ease restrictions on abortion — a vivid and emotional show of how the issue remains sensitive two decades after abortion was legalized in this traditionally Roman Catholic country.
Spain's Parliament approved a law Thursday narrowing the scope of a cross-border justice doctrine which had allowed judges to indict people like Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden.
Two men captured in connection with the hijacking of a Spanish tuna boat in the Indian Ocean will be brought to Madrid on orders from a judge, a Defense Ministry official said Tuesday.
The British charity Save the Children, joined by celebrities including Annie Lennox and Julia Ormond, announced Wednesday a global campaign to cut infant mortality among children under the age of 5 by more than half.
Spain said Thursday it has disqualified a group of Israeli academics from a solar power design competition because their university is in the West Bank, the latest in a series of low-level European sanctions against Israel over its settlement policy.
A little-known Spanish matador is breaking with a sacred tradition, agreeing to advertise on his cape while slaying bulls and endorse a soft drink that caters to gays.
The mayor of a Spanish resort town was ousted Tuesday in the culmination of a battle that pitted one of the country's most powerful politicians against her own mother on a question of discipline.
Chess eminences Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov are dusting off their knights and pawns for an exhibition rematch marking the 25th anniversary of their first title bout — a grueling one that lasted five months and was eventually halted.
Times are hard in much of Spain, but down south it's getting serious: Court clerks are reduced to forgoing taxis and catching a bus when they have to serve a summons.
Spain's prime minister will meet with President Barack Obama next month at the White House, officials said Friday, the culmination of a Spanish drive to repair ties that were frayed over the Iraq war when George W. Bush was in power.
A court in Barcelona says insulting your boss with one particularly foul obscenity is not grounds for dismissal, insisting the slight is common in arguments in Spain and not that big a deal.
A pocket of Spanish suburbia hardly seems the spot for a new swine flu battlefront, but an eatery in a shopping mall outside Madrid claims to be the world's first restaurant with a specific plan to protect against the disease.
A drive to oust the mayor of a Spanish resort has drawn in two unlikely opponents: a powerful member of Spain's governing Socialist party and her own mother.
The Spanish judge best known for indicting Augusto Pinochet and Osama bin Laden appeared in court Wednesday with the tables turned: this time he was a suspect, accused of overstepping his authority in a huge domestic case involving Spanish civil war atrocities.
Spain's Catholic Church has new advice for pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela: Don't kiss the saint.
Spaniards honored 154 people who died a year ago Thursday in the crash of a Spanair jetliner in Madrid, praying for them at Mass and laying flowers at a plaque bearing a pledge they will never be forgotten.
Spain's Socialist prime minister has irked his natural enemies on the right and in the Catholic church by legalizing gay marriage and instituting fast-track divorce. Now he has hit a raw nerve even among his supporters with a proposal to let 16-year-olds get abortions without parental consent.
A Spanish court on Tuesday shelved a judge's investigation of an Israeli air force bombing in Gaza in 2002 that killed a suspected Hamas militant and 14 civilians, siding with prosecutors who said Spain lacks jurisdiction.
Italy's Dolomite mountains and the Wadden Sea along the coasts of Germany and the Netherlands were among several sites added Friday to UNESCO's world heritage list.
A powerful bomb exploded Friday near the Basque city of Bilbao, killing a policeman in an attack blamed on the separatist group ETA.
Moody's Investors Service has downgraded the ratings of 30 Spanish banks and building societies, citing Spain's economic downturn and a big rise in non-performing loans.
Only a month old and already in a bad mood, a baby white rhino conceived through artificial insemination is delighting keepers at a Spanish zoo.
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